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Artificial Intelligence: Speeding the Discovery of New Materials

By Dick Weisinger

Artificial Intelligence is being applied to a variety of fields, sometimes with amazing results. For example, scientists have begun to use AI in the area of materials science in order to help discover new materials. Researchers at Sandia estimate that…

Artificial Intelligence: COVID is like NLP

By Dick Weisinger

GPT-3 is the super Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm from OpenAI that was trained on nearly all text (hundreds of billions of words) from the internet. Given some prompts, it is able to generate essays and text that are amazingly…

Artificial Intelligence: Google’s Trillion-Parameter Predictive Language Model

By Dick Weisinger

GPT-3 the predictive language model created by OpenAI captured headlines last year when it showed that it could produce text and essays that couldn’t be distinguished from those written by a human. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said that “the…

Artificial Intelligence: US Government Invests in AI

By Dick Weisinger

The National AI Initiative Act was passed by the US Congress January 1st. The legislation enables funding for AI research and development across a number of US federal agencies. The law authorizes billions of dollars to be made available to…

Artificial Intelligence: Will AI Replace Middle Management Jobs?

By Dick Weisinger

Business management has been changing. Middle managers of years ago would roam the workplace, observing and advising. But increasingly business decisions have become data driven, and middle managers have been forced to spend most of their time with spreadsheets and…